Masturbation is probably three to four times a week. I looked at pornographic pictures when I was 12 and got caught and never really had an urge to go back to it. How often do you watch porn? Masturbate? Man A: I don't watch any porn. My dad walked out on my mom when I was 7 and I've hardly seen him since and I think that's probably been a factor in some of my romantic difficulties, since I don't think I want to open myself up to that kind of hurt again. I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop or something to come up. I've always been fairly shy when it comes to approaching women, and I tend to be very suspicious if someone expresses romantic interest in me. Man C: I didn't set out to be a 27-year-old virgin, but it just kind of happened. I've definitely been eager to lose my virginity since college but I haven't had a relationship that's been serious enough to reach the sexual stage.
If not, was maintaining your virginity a conscious choice or did it just happen that way? Man B: It just happened that way. In southeast Asian culture people are expected to be virgins until their wedding night, but a lot of people still have sex before then. My fraternity brothers and their wives who kept their virginity until they were married have all told me it's worth it, so that encouragement has been helpful. I've been single for a while also, mostly because of work, but I've always been conscious of remaining a virgin based on the teachings of the church. I grew up in the church and joined a Christian fraternity in college, so I've had that accountability from others throughout most of the formative years of my life.
Have you made a decision to remain a virgin until marriage? Man A: I have. What is your current relationship status? Man A: Single. In this week's Sex Talk Realness, spoke with three men who have remained virgins for a variety of reasons to find out what it's really like to be an adult male virgin in a world that equates sleeping with a lot of women with masculinity. When most people think of virgins, their brains immediately go to images of young women in their teens and early 20s, not men over the age of 22.